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The edition provides complete, easy-to-read annotations and clarifies editorial background, including sources for wording and spelling. It explains editorial decisions about conflicting 1584 quartos, incorporation of song lyrics from later publication, and approaches to reading Lyly’s long monologues. 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Pandion, a scholar.\u003Cbr>Molus, servant to Pandion. Sybilla, an aged soothsayer.\u003Cbr>Gods and Goddesses:\u003Cbr>Venus, goddess of love and beauty. Cupid, her son, god of love.\u003Cbr>Vulcan, her husband, the blacksmith god. Calypho, one of the Cyclops.\u003Cbr>Scene: Syracuse | INTRODUCTION to the PLAY\u003Cbr>With Sapho and Phao, dramatist John Lyly sought not to elicit loud guffaws from the audience through slapstick or vulgar humour, but rather to bring \"soft smiles\" to the viewers' faces, along with a genial delight. The plot explores what happens when members of opposite castes in society − royal and menial − fall in love, and the limitations that rank can impose on romance. Add in a generous dose of light comedy from a typical Lyly-esque company of servants and ladies-in-waiting, and some supernatural fun from two quarrelsome gods and a goddess, and the result is a goodnatured play, well worth the reader's time to explore.\u003Cbr>OUR PLAY'S SOURCE\u003Cbr>The text of this play was originally adapted from the 1902 edition ofLyly's plays edited by Warwick Bond, but was then carefully compared to the British Library's 1584 quarto, whose text can be found on the Early English Books Online database. Consequently, much of the original wording and spelling from this earliest printing of the play has been reinstated.\u003Cbr>NOTES ON THE ANNOTATIONS\u003Cbr>Mention in the annotations of various editors refers to the notes supplied by these scholars for their editions of this play. Their works are cited fully below.\u003Cbr>The most commonly cited sources are listed in the footnotes immediately below. The complete list of footnotes appears at the end of this play.\u003Cbr>1. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online.\u003Cbr>2. Crystal, David and Ben. Shakespeare's Words. London; New York: Penguin, 2002.\u003Cbr>3. Bond, R. Warwick (ed.) . The Complete Works of John Lyly, Vol. II. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1902.\u003Cbr>4. Daniel, Carter A. (ed.) . The Plays of John Lyly. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1988.\u003Cbr>5. Fairholt, F.W., ed. The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, Vol. II. London: John Russell Smith, 1858.\u003Cbr>6. Bevington, David, ed. Sapho and Phao. From the Revels Plays series: Hunter, G.K. and Bevington, David, eds. Campaspe / Sapho and Phao. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. |\n| --- | --- |\n\nNOTES on the PLAY.  \nA. Conflicting Quartos.  \nSapho and Phao was published in two editions in 1584, but the question as to which is the original and which is the reprint is an open question. Earlier editors assumed the copy held by the British Library was the first, and that the other edition, several copies of which are extant, represents the reprint. Bevington,6 however, argues persuasively that the British Library version is the reprint.  \nWe do not propose to address the issue here. Our text will be based on the British Library edition, whose text can be found on the web at any of the various Early English Books Online websites. Our notes will distinguish between the editions by referring to them as the \"B.L. quarto\"(for the British Library quarto) and the \"alternate quartos\" respectively.  \nHaving said that, the differences between the two editions are few and minor; as a result, our comments on the variations between the texts will be few as well.  \nB. Th","cbCailVCaIn5b1L0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailVCaIn5b1L0","pdf",1640868,82,"English","# Introduction to the Play\n## Our Play's Source\n## Notes on the Annotations\n# Notes on the Play\n## A. 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